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9/11 Families: Due Process, Even in Times Square

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

9/11 Families: Due Process, Even in Times Square

by

Abby Zimet

Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama are suddenly,
distressingly backtracking on Miranda rights, with Holder's
"We're now dealing with international terrorists" right up there as the
ultimate WTF remark - before Times Square, we were dealing with, what?
But those who have lost the most to international terrorists still argue
they have their rights. Peaceful Tomorrows, a group of 9/11 survivors and families of
victims dedicated to "turning our grief into action for peace," noted
that the rule of law worked for suspect Faisal Shazad: He was read his
rights and promptly began to talk. Holder's proposal, they said, is "a
slippery slope" we should not go down.

"We urge caution
and we invoke reason: we have laws that
work to protect our citizens and our security. We should not proceed
down a road that may become a slippery slope towards the curtailment of
fundamental due process rights that have served this nation well." -
Donna
Marsh O'Connor, spokesperson for September 11th Families for Peaceful
Tomorrows.

Further

Whew. That was way too close for comfort. And yeah, the country's in a sorry state to have come to this. But not only does Doug Jones become the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years; his win is a blunt rejection of all the hate-mongering, gay-bashing, race-baiting, sexual-assaulting, serial lying crap of losers Moore and Trump and Bannon and their ugly ilk. Forward to mid-terms. And once and for all, to Moore in all his evil: "Fuck you and the horse you (badly) rode in on."